Use sir in a sentence
Sentences starting with sir
- Sir John Herschel would have told them that this made little difference in accounting for the formation of worlds by aggregation, but at any rate it was a comfort to them. [6]
- Sir Richard Mowbray, with face aflame, watched her closely. [11]
- Sir Heinz Schorlin, who stood high in the Emperor's favour, would then be asked to apply to the sovereign to annul it, or at any rate to impose a lighter punishment. [10]
- Sir Thomas Gorges was the builder of Longford Castle, now the seat of the Earl of Radnor, whose family name is Bouverie. [6]
- Sir Benjamin Brodie was seventy years old before he left his physiological and surgical studies to indulge in psychological speculations. [3]
- Sir Kenelm Digby was playing his fantastic tricks with the Sympathetic powder, and teaching Governor Winthrop, the second, how to cure fever and ague, which some may like to know. [3]
- Sir Ozana's saddle was hung about with leather hat boxes, and every time he overcame a wandering knight he swore him into my service and fitted him with a plug and made him wear it. [5]
- Sir Madok was very bitter, and brake out anew with cursings. [5]
- Sir John Fastolfe urged the battle-corps into a gallop. [5]
- Sir Launcelot met up with old King Agrivance of Ireland unexpectedly last weok over on the moor south of Sir Balmoral le Merveilleuse's hog dasture. [5]
Sentences ending with sir
- Never Mind how y'r Extravigancies are come to my Ears Sir. [9]
- May I ask your name, sir? [9]
- You should try your fortune in London, where you shall be under my protection, sir. [9]
- Do you love your country, sir? [9]
- If I recommend you, why not, sir? [9]
- I can't tell you, sir. [2]
- If she did, you would have to check your extravagances mighty quick, sir. [9]
- Shall I read you the poems referred to in the one you have just heard, sir? [6]
- We'll gladly enlist you now, young sir. [10]
- And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
Short sentences using sir
- Pardon me, Sir Wolf! [10]
- It is your way, sir. [11]
- Gad, sir, that was providence. [9]
- Sir J. Lubbock, 'Transact. [1]
- Sir William whispered to her. [11]
- The King--Whence art thou, sir? [11]
- Who do ye think, sir? [11]
- He's a low thief, sir. [12]
- An amazing creature that, sir! [12]
- I like your spirit, sir. [9]
Sentences containing sir two or more times
- I'm thinking that you may be of those who went out to the Arctic Sea with Sir John Franklin--with Sir John Franklin, you understand. [11]
- And therewith Sir Uwaine and Sir Gawaine departed a little from them, and then were they ware where Sir Marhaus came riding on a great horse straight toward them. [5]
- To take it up, Mr Richard, sir, would imply a doubt of you; and in you, sir, I have unlimited confidence. [12]
- The bulletin-boarder referred to was Sir Ossaise of Surluse, a brave knight, and of considerable celebrity on account of his having tried conclusions in a tournament once, with no less a Mogul than Sir Gaheris himself--although not successfully. [5]
- And if you're to wait for an answer, Sir, you may wait in the passage, Sir, which is an airy and well-ventilated apartment, sir. [12]
- Sir Humphrey wrote to his brother admiral, Sir George Peckham, indignantly of this desertion, the reason for which he did not know, and then proceeded on his voyage with his four remaining ships. [4]
- They rather liked the sound of Sir Michael and, Sir Hans. [6]
- There--the figures nearest the queen are Sir Launcelot with his sword up, and Sir Gareth gasping his latest breath. [5]
- Then Sir Agwisance the King of Ireland encountered with Sir Gareth, and there Sir Gareth smote him from his horse, saddle and all. [5]
- Well, as to that, said Sir Launcelot, advise you well, for ye may choose whether ye will die or live, for an ye be yielden, it shall be unto Sir Kay. [5]
More example sentences with the word sir in them
- You're joking, sir, you're joking with me,' replied the lawyer, putting on his hat. [12]
- Mr Witherden, Sir, your handkerchief is hanging out of your pocket--would you allow me to--, As Mr Brass advanced to remedy this accident, the Notary shrunk from him with an air of disgust. [12]
- Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
- To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
- There was a young lady once, sir, the daughter of an outfitting warehouse of the first respectability--but that's a weakness. [12]
- There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
- Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
- Assisted by a young apothecary, Sir Charles washed and dressed the wound, which was in the left groin, and to our anxious questions replied that there was a chance of recovery. [9]
- But I tell you, sir, that it will not be over in seven times ninety days. [9]
- Let me tell you, sir, it is not now a question about Jimmy Madison or Jimmy Armstrong. [4]
- Manners waits on you, sir, in the drawing-room," said the footman. [9]
- I swear to you, Sir, I believe that these two centres of civilization are just exactly the two points that close the circuit in the battery of our planetary intelligence! [6]
- I have warned you, sir, and warn you again of the consequences of your meditated crime, and I give you my word I will do all in my power to frustrate it. [9]
- But I assure you, dear sir, that if I seem to be 'infesting the widow,' it is all seeming, and void of reality. [5]
- Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
- And then, sir, you will be sent to the Tower, and I shan't move a finger to get you out. [9]
- And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
- No, sir, if you want to see me, you've got to wait. [9]
- It's kind of you to take it like this, sir, seeing you've never been tempted and mightn't understand. [11]
- Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on that tin? [5]
- For you, sir, you shall return to your estate at Enderby, and we will use you abroad as opportunity shall occur. [11]
- So I caution you not to spend rashly those two words, sir. [9]
- I says: "Oh, you needn't be afeard, sir, she carried the three of us easy enough. [5]
- No, sir, faith, you must shut your eyes. [9]
- Stop a minute, you men; it is worth while, Sir, to tarry a moment. [10]
- Is that what you mean, sir? [9]
- But how grave you look, sir. [10]
- Very well, then you know what to say to Sir William. [11]
- Good-by, sir, good-by; you have taken a great load off my mind. [5]
- And I bid you good-day, sir. [11]
- As now, sir, you desire it, I will be a little more particular. [7]
- And yet when you come to look at it you cannot deny that we would have to go without the services of some of our ablest men, sir, if the country were opposed to --to--bribery. [5]
- I could like you as well as I liked Harris himself, sir. [5]
- And so, sir, you are very tiresome. [9]
- Ah, sir, then you are to step in here. [9]
- In brief, sir, you are the kind of lad I should have been had not fate pushed me into a corner, and made me squirm for life's luxuries. [9]
- You forget that you are in a parliament; you must remember where you are, sir. [5]
- The sight of yonder shining steeples and roofs seems to make your heart laugh, Sir Wolf, and, by Our Lady, you have good reason to bestow one or more candles upon her, for, besides other delightful things, a goodly heritage is awaiting you in Ratisbon. [10]
- He wore my yellow and green, sir, until he got to weigh one hundred and a quarter. [9]
- I'll take the wrong of this now, sir, and such shame as there is in that falsehood on my shoulders. [11]
- The wolfish Catherine writes to England for her lost Camisard, with much fool's talk about 'dark figures,' and 'conspirators,' 'churls,' and foes of 'soft peace'; and England takes the bait and sends to Sir Hugh Pawlett yonder. [11]
- Some people, Sir, would have been all flintiness and granite. [12]
- Some people, sir, would have--' 'Some people would have spared themselves the jabbering of such a parrot as you,' interposed the dwarf. [12]
- It's a pleasant world we live in sir, a very pleasant world. [12]
- I'd give the world to go, but you had better not take me, Sir. [12]
- The complainants had witnesses who testified under oath what they had heard in taverns and tap-rooms from Sir Seitz Siebenburg and those who repeated his tales. [10]
- And then anon within six strokes Sir Launcelot had stricken them to the earth. [5]
- But Countess Cordula withdrew hers with visible dislike, saying in a tone of chilling repulse: "Remember me to your wife, Sir Knight. [10]
- Just a word with ye, before it's too late, sir. [9]
- I don't hold with the unions--you know it well, sir, or you wouldn't be asking me advice. [9]
- Vandewaters was standing with Sir Duke Lawless when the message was handed to him. [11]
- Once I went with Sir David Brewster, and perceived that he looked on objects with other eyes than mine. [14]
- Deal not hardly with me, sir, else am I ruined. [5]
- I am, sir, with great respect, Mark Twain. [5]
- It was done with evident excitement, and his voice sounded eagerly urgent as he exclaimed: "I fix my last hope on you, Sir Knight, for you see there is scarcely one of the others who would not have an intercessor. [10]
- At last Sir Wissenschaft, a poor and obscure knight, out of a far country, arrived to do battle with the monster. [5]
- Dear sir, I wish you wouldn't look at me like that. [5]
- There's a cracked window sir, but I've not made any deduction on that account. [12]
- But the day will, come when they will execrate Pierce before Benedict Arnold, sir. [9]
- Mr Chuckster, sir, will you have the goodness to tap at the window for the constable that's waiting in the coach? [12]
- The man that will vote for that bill will break the eighth commandment in any other way, sir! [5]
- She said: "I will go to St. Louis, too, sir. [5]
- If your friend will do us humble folks so much honor, I beg he will step into our room; it is clean, is it not sir? [10]
- I think it will be more agreeable to Sarah's feelings, when she comes to hear from me of the honour you have done her, if she learns it was in liquor rather cooler than the last, Sir. [12]
- Now you sir, why haven't you been to me as you promised? [12]
- On inquiring to whom this place belonged, I was told that the owner was Sir Edmund Lechmere. [6]
- She it was who had a secret passion for Prince Charles, and these letters to Sir John, who had been with the Pretender at Versailles, must prove her ruin if produced. [11]
- And all this while Sir Marhaus touched them not. [5]
- My dear sir, when you are as old a traveler as I am, you will not ask such a question as that. [5]
- Yes, sir, it's when I like to think of him best. [9]
- I tell you what, Sir, there are a thousand lives, aye, sometimes a million, go to get a new word into a language that is worth speaking. [6]
- I tell 'ee what, sir, them Frenchies is treecherous devils, an' not to be trusted the len'th of a lead line. [9]
- Ay, I know what you would say: that Sir Joshua's portrait hangs above, executed but the year after, and hung at the second exhibition of the Royal Academy. [9]
- I didn't know what to say, so I just says-- 'Charles William Allbright, sir. [5]
- Yes, sir, that's what it is--oleomargarine. [5]
- Hows'ever, sir, being what I am, I merely scorn such expressions. [12]
- But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
- Among this number were Sir James and Lady Kay Shuttleworth. [14]
- The entrance doors were once more opened, and my lord, in a temper, at once began: "You press your courtesies too far, Sir John Enderby. [11]
- But Macnamara's wits were not wool-gathering, and when Slatin said to him, "If I escape, I will try to arrange yours," Macnamara replied, with a respectful but placid stolidity: "Right, sir. [11]
- If Eva Ortlieb were as lovely as the Virgin herself, and Sir Heinz's inflammable heart should blaze as fervently as it always did, she should not lure him into the paralysing bondage of wedlock so long as he was there and watched over him. [10]
- I am not well acquainted with the forms of procedure in the courts of New York, but in the West, sir, in the West--" The Judge. [5]
- It scared people well a couple of hundred years ago when Sir John Marsham and Dr. John Spencer ventured to tell their stories about the sacred ceremonies of the Egyptian priesthood. [6]
- Just over the way,' repeats Mr Brass's gentleman, with a glance at the court.--'Alone, sir? [12]
- Since this chapter was written Sir J. Lubbock has published his 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870, in which there is an interesting chapter on the present subject, and from which (pp. [1]
- Shortly after he was with Sir Thomas Gates in South Holland. [4]
- This same thing was repeated once more; and it fetched such a whirlwind of applause that Sir Sagramor lost his temper, and at once changed his tactics and set himself the task of chasing me down. [5]
- Joan's loyal soul was outraged, and she turned upon the preacher and flung out a few words with a spirit which the crowd recognized as being in accordance with the Joan of Arc traditions: "By my faith, sir! [5]
- Countess Cordula, who was on friendly terms with Eva, also emptied the vials of her wrath with all the impetuosity of her nature upon Sir Seitz Siebenburg and the credulity and malice of the people. [10]
- Yet the blow was not unkindly meant, for even while he drew back she voluntarily clasped both his hands, scrutinized him intently from head to foot, and said calmly: "Welcome to the old home, Sir Knight! [10]
- Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
- While Sir Pyramus was leaving her Barbara had heard a man's voice in Frau Traut's room, but she scarcely noticed it. [10]
- And so it was here, Sir. [6]
- But now he wants me--he, Sir, is wholly devoted to the heathen gods-and he wants me . [10]
- Mr. Paret, I want you to shake hands with Mr. Donovan, the floor leader of the 'opposition,' sir. [9]
- Well, what I want to know is this--are we to give in to the government, or do we stand to be hammered by Sir Erasmus Gower? [11]
- It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. [5]
- And when I wake up three days after, here's my eyes as fresh as daisies, and you back, sir, and the thing done that we come to do. [11]
- And did you wake me sir? [5]
- He heard the voices of Sir William and his uncle. [11]
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